Accused Of Raping

An Apopka man was charged Friday with sexual battery. James Allen Atchison, 29, 1091 Bavarian Way, is accused of raping a 37-year-old woman at her home, police said. He is being held in the Orange County Jail without bail.

A pastor who founded a shelter for homeless women in Eustis has been accused of sexually assaulting and attempting to sexually assault three female clients, according to police. The allegations against Pedro L. Custodio, 44, known as "Pastor Pete" who runs the Our Father's House of Refuge Ministries, Inc., came to light in August while Eustis police were investigating another crime that took place at the shelter. A woman at the shelter said Custodio tried to force himself on her in July 2013.

HUDSON -- A 37-year-old Tampa man is accused of showing up at the home of a 14-year-old girl he met on the Internet and raping her, Pasco County deputies said. Jeffrey Reale apparently met the girl in an Internet chat room in May, sheriff's reports said. On Monday afternoon, Reale called to tell the girl he knew where she lived. After she alerted the Sheriff's Office, Reale knocked on the door and asked to use the bathroom. When she let him in, he raped her, she told deputies. The girl's relatives arrived at the home and found Reale hiding and trying to put his pants on, according to the report.

A 44-year-old man was arrested on Monday, accused of kidnapping and raping a woman at an apartment complex south of Orlando, the Orange County Sheriff's Office said. The woman told detectives the man, later identified as Vilson Tales, approached as she was walking to the mailboxes at Pointe Vista Apartments about 1 p.m. and asked her, "Do you like me?" Confused by the question, the woman began to walk away. But authorities say Tales immediately attacked: He grabbed her by the hair, bit her arms, slapped her and tried to drag her into a taxi, she told authorities.

A registered sex offender from Jacksonville was arrested Tuesday after a woman accused him of raping her near Eatonville.Orange County sheriff's investigators arrested Theodore Robinson, 28, in a Duval County hotel described by the victim.The woman, who was found at daybreak Sunday in woods near Wymore Road, told investigators she accompanied her attacker from Jacksonville Saturday night.She was assaulted and raped in his car and then left naked and stranded near the intersection of Wymore and Lee Road, sheriff's Sgt. Bernie Presha said.

A judge Friday dismissed charges against a New York businessman who was accused of raping a woman he met through the Internet. Self-employed electronics businessman Paul Krauth, 46, was arrested Sunday in the alleged rape, assault and sodomy of a 41-year-old graduate student from Syracuse, whom he had contacted online. After weeks of exchanging e-mail, the woman traveled to New York to meet Krauth at his Greenwich Village apartment, police said. The woman alleged Krauth raped her there, but prosecutors sought dismissal of the case, citing a ''lack of candor'' to police and attorneys.

A mentally disabled 21-year-old woman took the stand Wednesday to testify against four ex-high school football players accused of raping her in a crime that shocked their Glen Ridge community. The woman testified that the four defendants ''did something to me that I didn't like'' in the basement of two of the defendants on March 1, 1989. The four are accused of repeatedly raping the woman, who was 17 at the time, allegedly using a stick, a broomstick and a baseball bat. The prosecution says the victim, who has the IQ of an 8-year-old, was lured to the basement by the promise of a date by one of the defendants.

The trial of three U.S. servicemen accused of gang-raping a 12-year-old girl on the southern island of Okinawa will begin on Nov. 7, court officials said today. Facing possible life sentences are Navy Seaman Marcus Gill, 22, of Woodville, Texas; Marine Pfc. Rodrico Harp, 21, of Griffin, Ga.; and Marine Pfc. Kendrick Ledet, 20, of Waycross, Ga. The three are accused of abducting and repeatedly raping the girl Sept. 4 near the U.S. Marine base on northern Okinawa.

An 8-year-old boy accused of raping two younger neighbors may have assaulted as many as six other children, authorities said. Prosecutors filed a petition Friday accusing the boy of two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct involving a 5-year-old girl and a 6-year-old boy. The petition accuses him of assaulting the girl between mid-April and June and assaulting the younger boy in June. All three children live near each other in Lee Township, west of Midland, in central Michigan. Sheriff John Reder said Monday that the 8-year-old is being investigated in connection with up to six other sexual assaults involving children.

TITUSVILLE - Police arrested a 19-year-old Titusville man Wednesday and accused him of raping a drunk 14-year-old girl at a party. Shane Lamont Williams, 1546 Violet Ave., charged with sexual battery, was being held at the Brevard County Jail in lieu of $35,000 bail. The girl told deputies she was at a party at a friend's home in Mims on March 11. After drinking alcohol, she fell asleep in a bedroom. She told police she awoke to find the suspect in bed with her and that he sexually assaulted her despite her pleas to be left alone.

A pedicab driver was arrested Saturday after a customer said he drove her to some woods in Daytona Beach and raped her. The woman said George Brainard, 28, of Ormond Beach picked her up Friday night on International Speedway Boulevard and West Road. Instead of taking her where she requested, he took her a short distance away to woods in the 2000 block of Bayless Boulevard and raped her, an arrest report states. Brainard claimed that the woman "was the aggressor and he was the victim," according to the report.

A 47-year-old man has been charged in a sex attack on one-legged woman in the Orlando area, clickorlando.com is reporting. William Frafjord, 47, has been charged with sexual battery of a physically helpless person. The alleged victim, a grandmother who lost a leg in a traffic crash more than a decade ago, said Frafjord was a family friend who came over regularly to watch television, clickorlando.com is reporting. Read the full report at clickorlando.com .

Three more women have come forward accusing a Deltona firefighter of sexually assaulting them after they went on dates with Terry Freeman, who is now facing additional charges, authorities said. Freeman, 32, was arrested in late December after an Altamonte Springs woman accused him of forcing her to have sex during a date after meeting each other at the 25-year-old's workplace. After news of his arrest circulated, women in Lake Mary and Orange City reported to authorities that they too were raped by the firefighter and Volusia County Sheriff's investigators fear there may be more victims, according to spokesman Gary Davidson.

A Deltona firefighter is accused of raping a woman he met off-duty while shopping for a mattress at a furniture store in Sanford. Terry Freeman, 32, was booked into Volusia County Branch Jail on Tuesday. He faces one charge of sexual battery with a deadly weapon or force. The alleged victim reported the rape to the Altamonte Spring Police Department last Friday, according to an arrest report. The woman told deputies she met Freeman on Dec. 27 at a Sanford furniture store.

Two men were arrested after being accused of kidnapping a mentally disabled 17-year-old girl from Daytona Beach, bringing her to an Orlando hotel and raping her. The girl, described as having the mental capacity of an 8-year-old, told investigators that she was at a beach in Volusia County on Saturday with her sister when 23-year-old Finest "Jay" Martin and 40-year-old Derick Bullitts struck up a conversation with her. The men then pushed her...

KISSIMMEE - A 55-year-old Kissimmee man has been arrested on charges of raping a 16-year-old girl for several years, according to the Osceola County Sheriff's Office George Evalle cooperated with the investigation and was charged with three counts of sexual battery, one count of lewd and lascivious molestation and one count of battery. The rapes and other sex crimes began in late 2009 when the victim was about 13 years old, according to sheriff's spokeswoman Twis Lizasuain. The teen told detectives the attacks began after Evalle of Marta Circle, Kissimmee, invited her to his apartment and touched her inappropriately.

Orlando's Police Pension Board on Thursday addressed the case of a retired officer accused of rape, voting to pay Roderick Johnson only from his own contributions until his criminal case concludes. Johnson, 44, filed retirement paperwork about a week after his arrest, requesting the roughly $52,000 annual pension he accrued during his often-troubled two decades with Orlando police. City officials said a conviction could lose Johnson his pension, but the criminal case is unlikely to conclude anytime soon.